The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Dickson Heirs Not Yet Through
Fighting for the Fortune Left tc
Negroes Two Gun-shop Hands
Terribly Injured by Molten Lead al
Augusta-The Oldest Almanac in the
State.
The peach crop is a failure in Decatur
county.
The APP lie crop of North Georgia win be
an abundant one.
Holman, who murdered Matilda Gudger
in Whitfield county, will hang on JulyS
Rain is much needed in Miller county
the corn crop being already materially
damaged.
There is a glad monotony in the crop re
ports-good in all sections of the country
heard from.
cambridge is again offered the weather
reports after July by the Department at
Washington.
The District Conference for the Rome dis
trict assemblies in Rome, commencing
Wednesday, July g.
Madison county is stirring up the pro-
hibition question. They will probably have
an election in September.
The firm of Burpee Bros, of Athens, have
dissolved w. B. Burpee continues the
business and assumes liabilities.
Monday, July 4, thirty-three years ago,
commenced the sale of the first town lots
around the public square at Hartwell
The third quarterly conference of the
Methodist church for the Dublin circuit
meets at Boiling Springs church on Wednes-
day July q.
Dan Parsons, a young man who lives near
Spring Place, was bitten by spider few
days ago and came very near losing his
life from the effect of the poison.
Several loads of wheat, all the way from
Dooly, passed through Perry last Monday
on the way to Houston Factory, where the
wheat was converted into excellent -four.
Outside capitalists have offered TO take
one-haf the stock of a 100000 blast fur
mace to be erected in Tallapoosa, provided
parties can be found who will take the bal
ance.
The prospect for good crops in all parts of
jackson county are now fiattering, and the
farmers seem to be buying fewer goods than
last year, when crop prospects were dis
couraging.
The quantity of coal used in Albany is
gradually increasing each year. Five years
ago but little was burned in the city but
now forty or fifty car loads are required to
supply the demand.
The Thompson-Hou Electric Light
Company turned on their lights at Augusta
Friday night for the first time. They
worked well and were highly spoken of by
those who saw them
The firm of McGinty & CO., of Athens,
has been dissolved, by Mr.. McGinty pur-
chasing the interest of Dr. Z. S. Lyndon
and DIR. j. A. Hunnicutt. Mr. McGinty
will continue the business.
A Lexington gentleman has mich cow
which gives him five gallons of milk a day.
She is not a Jersey, either. She is CON
Eidered o1e of the finest cows in Lexington
and is valued between SO and S100
Greene county owns a first rate mineral
spring out ON the pauper farm, five miles
from Greensboro. Its medicinal properties
are perhaps rs good as those of springs that
annually attract hundreds, but is not easy
of access and is not in good condition
Samuel Gilbert, a clerk at the store of Mr..
Majors, in Athens, near the lower bridge,
was too careless with the business end of a
parlor rifle and shot a ball through his
thigh. DR.. Lowry extracted the ball and
at last accounts he was doing very well
A hubbub of excitement ran through
Lexington on Tuesday last, when report
came that dispatch had been received at
Washington stating that Judge Samuel
Lumpkin had suddenly died at his summer
retreat in North Carolina How the report
started no one can say. 1t is utterly un-
true.
The Roma Co,,,.;or so,.s +l,o+ :, To-.
week or ten days there has been very
marked ana decided reaction against prohi-
bluon in Rome and Floyd county. The in
tolerance and bigotry of extreme Probibi-
uonlsts have disguised the more conserva-
tive and set them to thinking, and this is
unfavorable to prohibition.
Ben Hammond, living near Valley Head
ruined his sistcr-n law. His wife found it
out went crazy and was sent to the insane
asylum. Hammond deserted the children,
and lived IN Chattanooga, passing the girl
oil as his wife, till they were arrested few
edays ago. He is in prison. A kind hearted
man paid her fine and sent her home.
Reports from all over Sumter county arc
TO the effect that crops of all kinds wore
never more promising than they are inst nj
this time. Corn has been laid by and will
yield an abundant harvest, while cotton is
booming along at lively rate from the eff
fects of the recent rains. 1t is already
heavily fruited and the yield promises to9be
large.
A certain farmer of Hart county talkinc
. about his crop of cotton. told us that hi;
R%eacher's patch was the best cotton he had
NWhere is your preachers match located :,
we asked Right in the centre of the field. -
Why did you put it in the centre of the
field" 80 that the Lord couldn't send rain
ON the preachers patch without raining on